Dry Well Creek

Dry Well Creek is a stream in Harney County, Oregon, United States in the Harney Basin of Eastern Oregon.[1] Its mouth is at an elevation of 5,000 feet (1,500 m).[1] It is among streams in the drainage basin of Malheur Lake, a Great Basin water body with no outlet.[3]

Dry Well Creek
Location of the mouth of Dry Well Creek in Oregon
Location
Country	United States
State	Oregon
County	Harney
Physical characteristics
Source	Dry Well Spring
• location	Malheur National Forest
• coordinates	43°54′07″N 119°23′31″W[1]
• elevation	5,696 ft (1,736 m)[2]
Mouth	Emigrant Creek
• coordinates	43°53′03″N 119°25′06″W[1]
• elevation	5,000 ft (1,500 m)[1]

Dry Well Creek is an intermittent fish-bearing stream that flows into Emigrant Creek, a tributary of the Silvies River.[4] The creek is part of a watershed restoration project.[4] Resident aquatic species in the project area include Great Basin redband trout, Malheur mottled sculpin, speckled and longnose dace, redside shiners, bridgelip suckers, Columbia spotted frogs, crayfish and western pearlshell mussels.[4]